Is it grace forgiveness? And power!
Verse of the day: By the grace of God, I am who I am; and his grace, which was bestowed upon me, was not in vain; I used to work much harder than everyone else; However, not me, but God’s grace with me (1 Corinthians 15:10).
- Grace is not just mercy when we sin.
- Grace is God’s powerful gift so we don’t sin.
- Grace is power.
- Not just forgiveness.
This is clear, for example, in 1 Corinthians 15:10. Paul describes grace as the empowering power of his work. It is not simply the forgiveness of your sins; is the power to continue in obedience.
Therefore, the effort we make to obey God is not by our own strength, but by the strength that God provides, that God may be glorified in all things (1 Peter 4:11). It is the obedience of faith.
Paul confirms this in 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12, calling each of our acts of goodness “works of faith” and saying that the glory this brings to Jesus is “according to the grace of our God,” because it happens. “through his power”:
Therefore, we do not stop praying for you, that our God may make you worthy of your vocation and fulfill with strength all the purposes of goodness and work of faith, that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you. you, in it, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ?.
Obedience that pleases God is produced by the power of God’s grace through faith. The same dynamic acts in all phases of The Christian life. The power of God’s grace that saves by faith (Ephesians 2. 8) is the same power of God’s grace that sanctifies. in faith.